Interview with Professor Zunes
Right Now’s Editor-in-Chief, André Dao, recently spoke to Professor Stephen Zunes, a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco. He is one of the world’s leading...
View ArticleInterviews at the 2012 Legal (r)Evolution Conference – Part I
On Friday 16 March, the Progressive Law Network held its 2012 Legal (r)Evolution Conference. It began with a keynote speech from the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, and was followed by three sessions focused...
View ArticleInterviews at the 2012 Legal (r)Evolution Conference – Part II
On Friday 16 March, the Progressive Law Network held its 2012 Legal (r)Evolution Conference. It began with a keynote speech from the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, and was followed by three sessions focused...
View ArticlePresentation – 1.4 Billion Reasons
Could you live on $2 a day? Given a single morning coffee costs around twice that much, it is almost unimaginable for most of us. Yet 1.3 billion people – that’s almost 60 times the population of...
View ArticleVideo: Off the Record – Criminal Record Discrimination
“I think if I didn’t take this job, I’d probably be in prison, or dead. One of the two.” These are the words of an anonymous interviewee in the short documentary, Off The Record. The documentary shares...
View ArticlePoem: Please Resist Me by Luka Lesson
Luka Lesson is the current Australian Poetry Slam Champion and Co-director of The Centre for Poetics and Justice based in Melbourne. Luka has been active in utilising hip-hop and poetry as a form of...
View ArticleVideo Interview – Paris Aristotle on the Asylum Seeker Expert Panel Report
Paris Aristotle AM is the Director of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc (also known as Foundation House), a position he has held since helped found the organisation in 1987. He was...
View ArticleThrough Deaf Eyes
Earlier this year, five deaf writers presented Through Deaf Eyes at the Melbourne Writers Festival, a unique performance featuring deaf writers telling their stories in Auslan. Developed and directed...
View ArticleA Day at the Footy
By Lily King. This piece is part of our March 2013 focus on Sport and Human Rights. Richmond 15:3 from Lily King on Vimeo. I filmed this story last year as part of my Journalism course at RMIT...
View ArticleBalan’s story
The story of Balan, a Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seeker living in western Sydney. In his own words he describes the persecution that drove him from his homeland, his boat journey to Australia and his time...
View ArticleThe Blaktism – An Interview with Megan Cope
Right Now: Can you tell us a little bit about The Blaktism, your new media work currently showing at Screen Space? Megan Cope: The Blaktism is a video performance of a baptism-like ceremony wherein a...
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Richard Lewer: Worse Luck I am Still Here
By Maggie Watson In November 2012 the body of Herbert Bernard Erickson was found dead at Floreat Beach in Western Australia. The 81-year-old’s vehicle was found parked nearby and his clothes neatly...
View ArticleFrom homeless to hopeless: Interview with Luke Robson
By Bec Bridges Luke Robson and Marina Loncaric, in an effort to change people’s perceptions of the homeless, made a documentary that saw Luke voluntarily live on the streets for five days. Over the...
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